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Ross Fulton Analysis: Can Washington's Defense Contain Ohio State's Passing Attack? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Friday, September twenty sixth
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  Speaker 1: th Im'm your host, Tom or the Washington game in
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  Speaker 1: one day, the game against Michigan in sixty four days.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to be joined today once again by our
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  Speaker 1: buddy Ross Fulton, the exs and NOS guru at bucke
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  Speaker 1: we're going to be talking about the Washington defense and
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  Speaker 1: their matchup with the Ohio State offense. A lot of
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  Speaker 1: the story this week has been around a couple of
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  Speaker 1: injuries on that Washington defense. The Huskies already potentially going
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  Speaker 1: to be pacing a little bit of an uphill climb
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  Speaker 1: against the Ohio's date offense, and that is only going
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  Speaker 1: to get a little steeper with the loss of Buddha Aluta,
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  Speaker 1: who's one of their linebackers. Jed Fisher said earlier in
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  Speaker 1: the week he is definitely out for this game, and
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  Speaker 1: Ta Carrio Davis, one of their cornerbacks, he is also
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  Speaker 1: his status a little more up in the air for
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  Speaker 1: this weekend. There's definitely a couple real areas of concern
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  Speaker 1: for Washingtonton. But ross I wanted to start with Ryan Walters,
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  Speaker 1: the defensive coordinator for Washington. He of course was at Illinois,
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  Speaker 1: was a defensive coordinator under Britt Bilma for a number
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  Speaker 1: of years, very successful there, then had a couple of
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  Speaker 1: years as head coach at Purdue, not so successful there.
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  Speaker 1: But he is known basically as a defensive coordinator as
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  Speaker 1: a man guy, man, man, man, man, Now, all those
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  Speaker 1: kind of things. That's always a little over oversimplifying things.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, when you when you talk about a
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Walter's defense, what are you expecting from them this weekend?
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  Speaker 2: It's not too simplified. It's a lot of man. He
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  Speaker 2: has a he's had a unique style. They play a
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  Speaker 2: six to one, which is sort of a variation of
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  Speaker 2: the Penny front that Matt Patricia has been using. But
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  Speaker 2: you put an extra linebacker or nickel up there. We've seen, oh,
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  Speaker 2: I say to you that a little bit a ton
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  Speaker 2: of man, and they played in a somewhat unique way
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  Speaker 2: where that deep safety is basically in the parking lot.
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  Speaker 2: He's like if on a you know, if you're watching
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  Speaker 2: on television, you won't see that guy on the screen,
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  Speaker 2: even pret app he's twenty years pack. They mix in.
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  Speaker 2: They're like his change up to that has always been
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  Speaker 2: Cover two or Tampa two, and you know the goal
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  Speaker 2: is just take away the run game. Now, as Ryan
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  Speaker 2: Day talked about during his press conference, I think they've
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  Speaker 2: mixed it up a little bit more this year than
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  Speaker 2: he has in the past. You see some four down
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  Speaker 2: front from him, uh to you know, give you some
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  Speaker 2: different looks. But you know, principally, as I said, it's
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  Speaker 2: in that odd front Cover one, you know, mixing and
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  Speaker 2: some Cover two. But you got to have be certainly
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  Speaker 2: ready with all your man beaters against Ryan Walters defense.
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  Speaker 1: So okay, we'll see if this is oversimplifying things. Washington
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  Speaker 1: doesn't seem like they should have the cornerbacks who can
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  Speaker 1: stick with Ohio States wide receivers in man coverage. So
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  Speaker 1: how does this work for Washington if they don't have
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  Speaker 1: defensive backs that can stay with Ohio States wide receivers
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  Speaker 1: in man coverage and you're you know, you've got to
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  Speaker 1: cover one. How does how does this not end up
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  Speaker 1: with a whole lot of long completions and yards after
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  Speaker 1: catching all that For Ohio States wide receivers.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a count of Washington counting on, you know,
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  Speaker 2: limiting in the Ohio State run game to put to
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  Speaker 2: put Julian Saying and the offense behind the chains and
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  Speaker 2: try to get them in some bad situations. You know,
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  Speaker 2: So if we use Purdue as an example last year,
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  Speaker 2: and maybe it's not a great example because in games
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  Speaker 2: like that, you know, Ohio State can tend to keep
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  Speaker 2: things pretty basic. But Ohio State did run a lot
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  Speaker 2: of zone inside zone against Purdue last year into that
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  Speaker 2: six to one front with not a lot of success.
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  Speaker 2: And those are with two you know, second round running
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  Speaker 2: backs who are you know, one O which is starting
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  Speaker 2: the NFL. So you know, if you do that and
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  Speaker 2: you sort of bang your head against the wall, you
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  Speaker 2: can get yourself in some bad situations. Washington does not.
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  Speaker 2: And and we've talked about this the Penny front. Generally,
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  Speaker 2: like counter is a great play against Penny, Washington has
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  Speaker 2: not fit counter well like Ohio States run a lot
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  Speaker 2: of counter uh it should be a very counter heavy
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  Speaker 2: game plan on the run game this week and then
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  Speaker 2: the passing game. I mean, I think it's it's mostly
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  Speaker 2: like on Walters to like change it up right and
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  Speaker 2: like change up the looks and try to keep uh
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  Speaker 2: saying off balance. But I would expect, yeah, a lot
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  Speaker 2: of motion from Ohio State like force Washington. Are you
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  Speaker 2: going to follow the motion? Are you going to rock
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  Speaker 2: and roll and spin leverage? You know how that can
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  Speaker 2: affect your run fits, a lot of bunch sets, you know, condensed,
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  Speaker 2: shallow crosses, mesh, you know, all the all the hits
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  Speaker 2: right like last year we had you know layer in
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  Speaker 2: the game, they split Trayvon Henderson out wide. He got
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  Speaker 2: matchup on a Mike linebacker man demand and they threw
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  Speaker 2: a forty yard go route to him. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: you're definitely looking for ways. I would look for the
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  Speaker 2: tight end to be a big part of it as well,
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  Speaker 2: like off of play action, you know, like leaks, throwbacks.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think it's time for them to get
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  Speaker 2: Max Clayer more involved with the passing game regardless, like
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  Speaker 2: they need a third option that's going to take some
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  Speaker 2: you know, with teams cheating like to that point, I
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  Speaker 2: guess I wouldn't be surprised if in their Cover one
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  Speaker 2: they've sort of played Cover one cheat and shade the
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  Speaker 2: safety to whatever side Jeremiah Smith is and so that'll
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  Speaker 2: put it on you know, obviously that opens things up
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  Speaker 2: for Carnel Tape, but they also would benefit from a
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  Speaker 2: third option coming forward right now.
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  Speaker 1: One thing that's kind of unique about the Washington defense
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  Speaker 1: is they're two starting quarterbacks cornerbacks Ephesians Price SoC and
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  Speaker 1: Ta Caryo Davis if he can go this weekend. They're
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  Speaker 1: both six foot four That is way bigger than you
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  Speaker 1: typically see out of cornerbacks. And Ohio State has had
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  Speaker 1: a lot of success with the wide receivers jeremih Smith
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  Speaker 1: and Carnel Tat, in particular going up and getting the
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  Speaker 1: ball over shorter corners because they could just jump higher. Well,
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  Speaker 1: now you maybe are looking at not having a height
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  Speaker 1: advantage or being maybe even at an inch or two
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  Speaker 1: of height disadvantage with those guys. How does that does
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  Speaker 1: that impact things at all in terms of what you'd
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  Speaker 1: be looking for from Ohio State in the passing game
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  Speaker 1: or or big corners just well, that means you're probably
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  Speaker 1: not gonna be able to keep up with things, you know,
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  Speaker 1: on a double move or whatever. How does how does
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  Speaker 1: big cornerbacks like that potentially shape what you might think
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  Speaker 1: about in terms of HIES data on offenses.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't really worry about Jeremiah Smith and his
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  Speaker 2: ability to get open. Yeah. I mean I tend to
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  Speaker 2: lean towards your ladder point. I mean, there's a reason
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  Speaker 2: you tend not to see bigger corners. And I'll have
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  Speaker 2: to say, Frankly sees that a little bit with Davis Senigbuanosen, right,
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  Speaker 2: Like the length gets you something, but you can also
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  Speaker 2: get sort of handsy and then it it, you know,
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  Speaker 2: challenges your short area quickness. So again, like I would
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  Speaker 2: expect lots of shallow crossing routes, lots of rub routes,
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  Speaker 2: you know, trying to force those guys to run with
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  Speaker 2: Jeremi Smith and Colonel Tape, probably lots of moving Jeremi
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  Speaker 2: Smith around, particularly you know, they're playing heavy man, get
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  Speaker 2: him in the slot, slot fades, uh, you know, using
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  Speaker 2: him in different ways coming coming back across the formation,
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  Speaker 2: like on RPO. Similar to what we saw against Oregon,
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  Speaker 2: where you run, you know, counter one way, and Jeremi
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  Speaker 2: Smith runs that little underneath air route opposite that was that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, his first touchdown in the rose ball. So
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  Speaker 2: I would look for like things like that, a lot
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  Speaker 2: of movement, a lot of making those guys chase wide receivers.
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  Speaker 1: As I'm looking at this game, We've now talked about
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  Speaker 1: the offense and the defense on both sides. As I
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  Speaker 1: look at this game, this feels a lot like a
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  Speaker 1: game where if Ohio State gets to thirty points, Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State's probably in pretty decent shape in terms of winning
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  Speaker 1: the football game. Is this you know, for Washington win
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  Speaker 1: this game? Does this need to do they need to
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  Speaker 1: hold this to like a twenty four to twenty one
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  Speaker 1: kind of game? Can Washington win a shootout? And you know,
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  Speaker 1: if Ohio State gets to a certain magic number, are
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  Speaker 1: they pretty much guaranteed to win? How do you how
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  Speaker 1: do you see this sort of playing out?
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  Speaker 2: I think it's going to kind of have to be
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  Speaker 2: a shootout for them. I mean, I guess you know Washington,
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  Speaker 2: right like, oh you gave you your sort of game plan.
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  Speaker 2: I guess if you're trying to get Ohio State to
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  Speaker 2: bog down the Red zone right, and like, if you're
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  Speaker 2: that in Ohio State's that inefficient inside the ten or
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  Speaker 2: inside the twenty, that will obviously give them a chance
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  Speaker 2: to turn you know, what should have been thirty odd
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  Speaker 2: points into twenty twenty one or twenty four. But I
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  Speaker 2: think it's that I think, you know, using the crowd
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  Speaker 2: to your advantage, as I said, trying to get Ohio
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  Speaker 2: State behind the chains. You know, if you can limit
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  Speaker 2: Ohio States run game, make the Buckeye's one dimensional, you know,
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  Speaker 2: put some pressure on Julian Sayan's plate, see how he
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  Speaker 2: handles it, Try to disguise, mix up your cover two trap,
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  Speaker 2: you know, get an interception in the flat and try
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  Speaker 2: to you know, sort of I hate I guess I'd
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  Speaker 2: use the word survive on defense for a lack of
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  Speaker 2: a better term, And but try to put your offense
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  Speaker 2: in some good spots and get a lead and get
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  Speaker 2: the crowd into it and put some pressure on Ohio State.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we will see how that game plays out on
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